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I'm using node to build some jQuery plugins. The tests for each one run using grunt and qunit and include copies of jQuery from a shared directory which is above (i.e. outside of) the grunt server's web root for each one.

/plug1 //web root for plug2's server
  /libs
    /jquery
  /tests
/plug2 //web root for plug2's server
  /libs
    /jquery
  /tests
/jquery
  jquery-1.9.0.js
   ...
  jquery-1.5.0.js

So I'm trying to use symlinks in order to include jQuery in the tests 

ln -s ../jquery/* libs/jquery

but when I run my tests task (which runs the tests once for each version of jQuery by writing a script tag for the right version after reading the version number from the page's query string) I get the following errors

Running "qunit:urls" (qunit) task
Testing test.html?jquery=1.5.0Error: ELOOP, stat '/Users/me/Sites/opensource/jquery/plug1/libs/jquery/jquery-1.5.js'

I'm relatively new to Unix, but I guess this means there's some infinite recursion error or similar.

Is there a way I can get node/grunt to use symlinks?

wheresrhys
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Run ln from the jquery directory.

cd plugs1/libs/jquery
ln -s ../../jquery/* .

cd ../../plugs2/libs/jquery
ln -s ../../jquery/* .
Pascal Belloncle
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